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Show STAGECSCREENtMDIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE PAUL MUNI and Charles Rains like the original screen play, "Angel on My Shoulder" well enough to want to co-star in it; Producer Produc-er Charles Rogers liked it well enough to pay $60,000 for it. It f 7.: , V' ' : , t v -jttftii v.. . h -. - ;- . t - " . "ft . . -: I ' - " PAUL MUNI was written by Harry Segall, who wrote "Here Comes 1 Mr. Jordan," so maybe the public will like it es well as they did that one. It's a film fantasy, laid mostly 1 at the Devil's estate in Hades. Muni will play the role of a gangster there, Rains will be seen as the Devil himself. him-self. Meanwhile, Art Director Herz-brun Herz-brun is having his troubles; he's investigating in-vestigating all the conceptions of Hades which exist today, trying to decide just what most people think ; it looks like. ! Want to swap predictions for 1946 with Darryl F. Zanuck? Last year he said that Jeanne Crain, Vivian Blaine, June Haver, William Eythe 1 and Dick Haymes would achieve ; stardom within a year. Now he predicts pre-dicts that Mark Stevens, Glenn Langan, Richard Conte, Nancy Guild and Rex Harrison are those most likely to achieve stardom In Hollywood during the next 12 months. m For months Dick Powell and his wife, June Allyson, have been looking look-ing forward to the day when they'd move into their remodeled Brentwood Brent-wood home. The work was delayed and delayed, while the Powells were evicted from one hotel and apartment apart-ment after another. Came December Decem-ber 20, the great day Dick had to spend it rehearsing his "Rogue's ; Gallery" broadcast, and June supervised su-pervised the moving alone. Claudette Colbert plans to spend the first three months of 1946 in New York, just resting. During 1945 she made three pictures; now, with attendance at-tendance at the New York opening of "Tomorrow Is Forever" her only definite date till Easter, she hopes to do nothing but catch up with all the things she's been wanting to do for the last four years. But watch those radio datesbob up! Joan Davis' daughter, Beverly Wills, used to spurn Joan's bedtime-story bedtime-story offers, saying, "What! With that voice?" Now "that voice' starred coast to coast Monday nights on CBS, has the last laugh on daughter in the movie, "George White's Scandals," Beverly does a take-off on Joan as a child. And Joan's voice was dubbed in to replace re-place Beverly's girlish tones. It all sounds pretty fantastic, and nobody could be much more in the dark about the whole thing than Hedy Lamarr. The tale is that she and George Eingfield submitted to the U. S. government complete details de-tails of their own invention of a steering device for torpedoes, four years ago. The plans and model were accepted for investigation, then nothing more was heard about it. But just as Hedy was about to start work in Hunt Stromberg's "The Strange Woman," London newspapers broke a story about the invention, inferring that it was one of the war's secret weapons.. Could be. But who can be blamed for thinking it's just a beautiful dream of a smart press agent? m Bob Hawk, of "Thanks to the Yanks," drew a capacity audience recently in a rather unorthodox way. Missing a plane in New Haven, Ha-ven, Conn., en route to Boston from New York, he fell asleep in the airport air-port waiting room. One hour later he woke up to find a large audience of men, women and children watching watch-ing him maybe hoping he'd talk in his sleep and divulge a few answers. ODDS AyD EXDS Thrit tap-tap-tapping you may mistake for added sound effects on "The Theater Guild of the Air" is Harold Levy beating a baton ' tattoo on ti5 music stand to arouse Horcnce ff'iehtman, harpist she becomes be-comes so interested in the play that she sometimes misses hrr music cues. . . . On the day uhen Sidney Blachmers son, Hreustcr, was born, he received a fan letter postmarked "Brewster, Oct. 31, 4 P. M.," the exact moment of the baby's birth. . . . Michael Curtis inter-viewed inter-viewed 50 applicants for the role of the four redheaded $ons in "Life With Father" jutt at a starter. It'll be filmed in technicolor. j |